Improvement in spool-cases



s. w. BALDWIN;

Spool-Cases.

No. 128,275, Patentedlun25, 1872.

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STEPHEN W. BALDWIN, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPOOL- CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,275, dated June 25,1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Spool-Cases, inventedby STEPHEN NV. BALDWIN, of Yonkers, county of Westchester, and State ofNew York.-

This invention consists in the combination of a case or holder for aspool or spools for sewing-thread with a cutter or cutters for severin gthe thread, as will be hereafter explained.

Figure 1 represents an exterior View of a case or holder for fourspools. the bottom of the same detached from the case. Fig. 3 representsthe case or holder with the bottom removed and the ends of the spoolsexposed.

As represented in the drawing, the case or holder is made to receive anydesired number of spools, and may be made to conform to their size bothin length and circumference, and when inclosed by a sliding bottom,shown at Fig. 2, they will be carefully protected from being soiled byany cause whatever. Said bottom is held in position upon the case by adovetailed rib, a, which fits into recesses 1) shown at Fig. 3. At 0,upon said bottom, cutting edges are placed in such a manner that whenthe bottom is in properposition upon the case to close it said edgeswill project, as shown at c, Fig. 1, to such an extent that a threaddrawn firmly across one of them will be nicely severed, thereby avoidingthe very injurious practice of biting the thread with the teeth. Thethread will also, by a very little dexterity, be

Fig. 2 shows so scarfed or tapered in being drawn across saidcutting-edge as that it need not be drawn between the teeth to be madeready for passing through the eye of a needle. One of said outters onlymaybeused in acase of several spools, as the thread can be drawn fromthe spools to it; but it will be quite convenient to place a cutter inthe recesses or spaces between any two of the spools, as shown in thedrawing. The numbers of the thread should also be indicated on theexterior of these cases or holders, so that any size of thread may beused without the trouble of examining the spools. The threads beingdrawn down through holes in the sides of the cases, as shown at ff, maybe held by the thumb upon the side of the case, while the free or looseend is caught by the other hand and drawn upon the cutter with aslightly-inclined action, thereby severing the thread from the spool,and at the same time scarfing the fibers, so that when wetted andtwisted it will be neatly pointed to enter the eye of the needle. Itherefore claim- As a new article of manufacture, a spoolholder,consisting of a series of graduated chambers and a sliding bottom,provided with one or more cutters, as described, and for the purposesset forth.

STEPHEN W. BALDWIN. Witnesses:

BOYD ELIOT, E. N. ELIOT.

